Guild Wars 2

What I would love is for the 20 and 30 scrolls be usable at any time to get those levels. Levels 1-10 go fast anyway, but why should it be worth more to a level 2 than a level 19?

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Don’t expect a lot of t6 sales from FTP, as they are gated from Laurels.

You do not need laurels to get T6s. Even doing the daily miner or taking a jog through southsun can net you some ori.

I hope anet is keeping an eye on the TP and will take countermeasures if anything fluctuates wildly.

Can you imagine the screams from sellers if suddenly iron dropped to be less than copper?

I am on GW2 several hours per night. I think I have managed to fill an inventory twice and I get a lot of drops.

When things slow down (you are not in a battle 100% of the time) look through your loot. Junk gets tossed it its own bag to go to the merchant or the mystic toilet (but might get deleted if I need the space) and I then start opening bags/salvaging. A lot of the items will salvage to the same things, just different tiers: mostly wood, ore, cloth, and leather. Sell it on the TP or just hit the option to deposit everything if you are in a hurry.

As I said, I can do several world bosses in a row and have no problem opening the various chests and such. If your complaint is it takes time just do it as part of your routine when you stop at a merchant to get new stuff. Yes, this works even in the SW as I only open stuff when in the fort.

I picked up shadow assassin. Not my ideal choice but I am leveling a thief and do not want to have to change dyes every few levels when I get something new. I might do the same with jungle explorer for the expansion.

A solid color one would be nice for screenshots. I would love for it to show more characters though.

loseridoit.2756:

gw2 do not have a mac port.

I believe it still uses a cider wrapper which is basically a specialize version of wine.

Exactly. The exact equivalent would be to use playonlinux to play guild wars 2. Do not like that idea? Why?

Cider is the main reason why gamers scoff at macs. A good late-model mac will blow the doors off of many PCs that windows users use for games. Not hot-rodded custom machines, I am talking the person who is using a 5 year old business laptop over wifi.

Companies release PC games with a cider wrapper. Then say they have a mac version (often beta and/or unsupported) and call it a day.

Aww, I really feel for you. All that treasure is SUCH a burden. Two solutions:

a) do not farm chests in the first place
b) delete those equipment bags after getting the crests and such

I regularly have around 70 free slots in the open world and could have more if I wanted. No, that is not extra bag slots … just regularly cleaning up junk I do not need with me. It allows me to go to several world bosses and open all the loot without worry.

Misguided.5139:

It’s ok, he still has to pay 300g for each one.

Maybe he has an arrangement with Zoros?

In another thread I asked if we would get unlocks from things we already did (achieves, certain bosses, etc) and was told yes, they would count. I just 80ed my necro and since I did hero challenges I had an excess at the end that went poof. I am not sure if those will return or what.

I plan on rolling a revenant after as a sylvari. It will be interesting.

I will probably hold off a couple days so I can play with elites first though as I will have all the others as 80s. My birthday is soon after release so the timing is perfect to instalevel a new character.

Since the release is so close to when they start doing halloween in GW2 my money is on some sort of a tie-in. It will probably be mostly existing content but in a few places (like LA being rebuilt) they need to change things anyway they will probably tweak the lore a bit. It is really anyone’s guess though.

It does set an interesting precedent. While all the races have different backstories it pretty much comes down to personal preference which one you use with a few minor exceptions like jumping puzzles.

How do we know that tomorrow all the humans will not be wiped out overnight by some plague? Or that asura will not take over the known universe and require all other players to give them protection money? Or that charr do not become the only race that can use the new legendaries? Or that norn do not all decide to leave for another planet?

I foresee a LOT of existing 80s running around with plenty of mastery points then! Map completions, just entering a new city, things that sound like world bosses, and so on.

I am curious, why not have xp transfer over? Surely they must have somewhere in their database how many times someone has rolled the xp bar over.

Will we get mastery points for past stuff. Some of them are for things you can hardly do twice short of rolling a new character (and even then some stuff gets blocked off).

Related to that, what about the xp we have earned since skill points went the way of the dodo? Does it get applied to our mastery tracks or did it go bye-bye?

I am looking forward to the pact mastery system, probably more than any other mastery line.

Yes, I am one of those people that sprung 300 gold on a tag just so I could help new players.

Charr do not really distinguish. If you were not familiar with them you would have a hard time figuring out their gender. According to the PS, even other charr can be unsure with minimal effort.

Both of my charr are females. One has a broken horn and the other wears an eyepatch. The ranger probably complains as much as males about almost all medium armor looking like skirts. They would both look strange in what humans think is female attire.

Remember the charr are the only race to kill (in the literal sense) their gods.

I would like to be able to run on 2 legs as well. It always annoys me that my charrs are standing up while running around fighting but as soon as the fight is done they drop down onto 4 legs to keep running. I can buy a race keeping to all 4s, but if they have the ability to stand on 2 legs why would they ever swap between 2 and 4?

How in the world does the block function help in this case?

BTW, why are guilds allowed to spawn bosses anyway?

Amusingly, since armor does not show through outfits you can not have the pirate outfit and eyepatch visible at the same time

FragFire.7023:

I didn’t see this subject addressed yet so I apologize if I missed the thread on it.

It’s quite obvious that putting NPC’s next to the bank in LA means they are going to be heard A LOT! You guys know this so their location was obviously planned… Now I have no problem with gay NPC’s in this game….. However I do have a problem with you using “children” to push your politics as though it is just an innocent game the children are playing. If you want to use adults to have this type of conversation then so be it but using children is just tasteless. I’m sure plenty of people will disagree with me… not everyone believes in God and that’s fine but many people do, so how about let’s play neutral and leave stuff like this out of the game completely… thank you for caring. Respect is a two-way street.

What the …. puppy.

That there is a well-known couple has been in the lore much before LA was rebuilt. Also that kids, in real life or in a game, will base their play off of known figures (cops & robbers, etc) is also nothing new. It is just a play on the stereotype of young males going ‘girls! ick!’ with the girl chasing after him.

All classes have their good points and bad points. I would suggest coming up with a list of what attributes you want, from must-have to ‘sounds good but no biggie if I do not have it’. You may also want to do a list of what things you REALLY do not want so you know what are show-stoppers for you. Then you can better decide what features you want.

Some things, like survivability, are relative to how you play them. My ranger, who wears medium armor, does much better in the silver wastes than my guardian, who wears heavy armor.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

But how about this question: Will Mordrem Blooms be used in the future, or should we use them all before the vendors disappear?

I sincerely hope they will not return! We were told the vendors would only be up a limited time so I spent all of mine rather than having them take up storage space (really? not something for your wallet?). Not my first choice of stuff, but AFAIK we had to spend them or lose them.

Daddar.5971:

Here’s a suggestion: design events that at least match the rewards we’d get if we spent the same amount of time farming the Silver Wastes. I’m sure it is still possible to give everyone who participated some form of reward for doing so beyond the paltry blooms we earned.

ANY type of reward really, I would be happy with XP (and maybe drops) if low-level players had as much a shot as 80s. I was leveling my necro and taking a weekend off from doing that, with no xp or other incentive, was just not in the cards. I did 3 invasions Thursday and 1 on Friday but after that just skipped it.

Basically, give us a reason to skip our normal stuff to do other things. It is the same reason why I skip the BWE: I know I will not get to keep any mats from doing my normal stuff so do not see much of an incentive to do play HOT until it is live.

Which will make it odd because so many traits depend on the shroud. So any traitline that has all 3 major traits at some point using the shroud is pretty worthless because you are foregoing some of the advantages of traits. Since I just rolled my necro a few weeks ago I have not gotten used to the shroud yet and I have had a terrible time trying to pick traits that would play to that style.

Maybe they need to rework necro traits then?

TheLastNobody.8319:

Axe is a ranged weapon and is getting a rework.

Ah, I did not know about the rework, thanks.

I did know it was somewhat ranged at 600. A bit short for ranged though. Hopefully the rework will increase that.

Dagger is, what, 900? I almost never use off-hand weapons but was not impressed the time I did try it.

Maybe I just have low expectations of any skin starting with a zed after looking through the zenith skins recently.

I love my ele. Sure, if she takes a hit she is toast, but otherwise is extremely versatile as you noted. What other class can swap builds with a single key between mostly support and pure damage? I would suggest rolling several characters in different professions, leveling them all to 80, then seeing what you like/dislike about each. I have sussed out the personality of each and use an itunes playlist for each to keep me in that frame of mind (for example, the one for my necro is heavily Pink Floyd, but my mesmer is more refined and classical).

I am building a Jory homage character. I already picked up the skins and she was training to be a reaper. Her weapons are axe, dagger, and greatsword.

Is it just me or is that not exactly an ideal weapon set? I prefer to have both melee and ranged weapons available in all professions (except ele and eng which do not have weapon switching) so I can use either depending on the situation. Ok, GS is good for melee (well, unless it was nerfed for reapers somehow) but that is not a weapon set that would leap to mind.

Is there something I am missing?

You mean someone actually uses the zodiac skins? ducks

Figlilly.3907:

I guess my only funny story (well, not really funny) was poor Flynn, my one and only Charr. He went to the hairdressers one day and emerged as Fenella. I told him it was that or deletion so he went along with it.

How could you really tell with charr? Unless you know what to look for another species would probably assume charr do not have the concept of gender.

BlackIDove.7510:

Silverwaste was supposed to be a map to do the events and fight multiple bosses, NOT a chest farming map. If GW2 wants to keep chest farming in, make it for a limited time, so that those of us that like doing the events can. It is unfair that those of us who like doing the events have to wait until the chest farming group deems it the right time to do so. I also refuse to jump from map to map to map just to find some people to do events with. Keep the chest farming in, just limit it.

How do you propose they limit it?

The other day after a series of events I was going through my inventory to sort out the junk from what I could sell from the REALLY good stuff.

Among my finds? A chest and a key.

Before selecting a character look at the dialog for guesting on another server. They are practically all full and very full (or some term like that).

Right, this event is dead and buried. I have the same question too if I read the OP right. Will the currency be reused for another event? Since I do not have enough to get anything worthwhile should I just chuck my blooms or litter my bank with them?

Any crafting that gets you to 500 is handy as you get 8 levels worth of xp.

My top request would be better camera controls. They are better than they used to be but I like being able to stand in one place and pan to places that would involve all sorts of contortions to see (like some of the karkas in the hunt). Obviously this needs a think of how to do it to avoid changing game mechanics, like looking around a corner so you can see the mob without them seeing you.

Some way of applying skins that does not always use transmutation charges. Like if you participate in some big event you can change an item’s look. I was really happy to hear I could change looks to other skins I had unlocked before getting here. Then extremely disappointed when I found out I could only do it with transmutation charges, which were a finite resource (so no being a clothes horse and trying out different looks).

As to number three … hmm. Nothing major, maybe some tweaks to existing things. I would love to see more lore filled out. Not in a PS, but reflected in changes to the living world. For example, most of the races do not have a distinction beyond good guys/bad guys … what if there were more subgroups represented like we have with the charr and asura? I would also like to see ash legion a bit more (guess which legion my charr are in).

Hardware has not stagnated as much as you think. Yes, the rate of things getting better has slowed but it has not stopped.

To go back to the new engine that Linden Lab (the owner of second life) is working on, it will have better graphics but there are no immediate plans to move it to phone. Obviously you could not put a huge game engine on a phone as they exist now. They DO have it in their long-range roadmap for when phone hardware starts to be able to handle it. Industries have learned that if something will take several years to code you should take a reasonable guess at average specs (barring some radical innovation) by then and plan for a bit less than that rather than constraining yourself to what exists now.

For example, I have learned that my apples rarely die. Only one did …. several years after a fan did. One outlasted several clock batteries before I finally recycled it. Which means I do not buy the specs I need today but what I will wish I bought several years from now. Basically, I turn up all the knobs to 11 and get the best cpu, gpu, memory, ssd, etc that are available to me now.

Interestingly, second life is building an entirely new engine for their next offering. Nit counting updates over the years, the server software is not too different in overall structure from what existed in their 2005 beta.

The GW2 engine is newer so there should be no need to rebuild it yet. The problems are of generating content and if said content should be part of a new game or replace existing content (like LA did a few times). If they do introduce major new content to GW2 it might be a good idea to first think of a ‘wish list’ for GW3 and how existing content would map to it. While it would be a different world enough would be the same that you would not want to be reinventing the wheel.

I wish there was an alternate way to get princess. I never do jumping puzzles.

Even some vistas are frustrating with different races. Ok, you get a better camera angle with asura, great. Try doing the vista on the crates near the center of LA with an asura and you will see what I mean.

Hint to people if you want to make sure plenty are there when it comes up on the dailies list there will be a lot of people, especially at the first one after the reset. There are also people there if they have to do events in the region because their times are known.

I vaguely seem to remember getting a slightly different list of dailies when another account was leveling. I am not sure if that was a fluke or intentional. However the ones that changed were things in higher level areas rather than ones in the starter zones.

I keep GW on my HDD and let it write the cache to the normal place on my SDD. Except for what is in visual range the rest is just static files sitting on your drive anyway.

You do not need level 80s, which will help a bit, I think it was 76 (or was it 73) that you can go to. There is a bunch of RNG though so you will not always get one.

Such as? … (addons is a pretty vague thing)

vumn.8152:

“I have attained the awesome.” – Charr male upon level-up.

Npw I have to search yotube. All of my characters are female.

While obviously none of us know anet’s exact plans, especially this far out, I was wondering what people thought of the potential for a GW3 at some point. Do you think it will happen? Why or why not? If yes, when do you think it might happen?

The existing content is a bit static. It would be nice to see a re-imagined world. For example, maybe an Orr that was cleaned up again. Inhabited by Tengu (now a playable race) maybe.

Most of this is just curiosity as to what other people think. Although part of it is the idea of being on the eventual ‘ground floor’ of a game being appealing.

I just found the most annoying — albeit funny — place for the mordy crier/nuisance in LA to stand. Right on the spot where the kodan merchant is.

I wonder how many other people gave up on this event before the weekend even started and are looking forward to it ending?

White is a mix of all colors so technically anything. I prefer blue though. Especially on a norn: they are the colors of the Finnish flag and blue/white looks like ice.

HaxTester.9816:

When will sale end? So I can stop hoping for that character slot and bag slot sale.

According to one poster above you do not want them I guess?

Today is the last day of the sale.

Qugi.2653:

Haha you are funny. You think all player want character slot so it should be on sale. You think you know what all player want. You also think you know how all player spend gem or save. You can not talk for all player. Like TV. I do not write letter to my city newspaper say that TV should be on sale because all people in my city want TV. I do not know that or what all people want.

Haha you are funny. You think all player want character slot so it should be on sale. You think you know what all player want. You also think you know how all player spend gem or save.[/quote]

sigh Let me guess, you have free slots or if they are filled you do not intend on rolling more characters, right?

There is a LONG history of character slot sales. A lot of us vets were just routinely expecting that history to continue and not stop abruptly. It would be if there was not a Wintersday this December for no good reason.

As to how people spend and save, it has nothing to do with the game or the gem store. It is how they behave. If you condition people that some widget will go on sale on a certain date when that date is approaching many will think ‘do I really need to buy this now’ if it is not an immediate need. Yes, you will still have impulse purchasers, but many more people actually think before buying something.

No, I have not talked to EVERY player in the game. Have you?